Damaged Södertälje Bridge costing millions each day – Swedish Dagbladet

there is uncertainty about when Sodertalje bridge will be repaired. Photo: Photographer Hans Ekestang / TT

Long queues at the broken Södertälje Bridge involves significant costs for businesses and individuals. Most likely cost breakdown least two million a day, including lost work and more expensive transport.

Even conservative ports bill of at least one million kronor, according to estimates from the Royal Institute of Technology Professor Jonas Eliasson, a specialist in the subject of transportation analysis system .

– In the short term, this means that a large amount of time is lost. Time primarily individuals suffer in terms of working must be taken back and leisure loss, he says to SVT News Stockholm, adding:

– Then, of course, the business community who are affected by, for example, more expensive transport and at worst production processes that stop, he said.

It must be the government’s responsibility to fund and administer the solutions required for the future.

E4 bridge southbound direction of Södertälje canal were injured on Christmas Eve when a truck crashed into the bridge. Low counted the accident has so far cost 35 million crowns, according Jonas Eliasson’s calculations.

Mayor Boel Godner (S) said to SVT News Stockholm to Södertälje has suffered economic losses since broolyckan.

– the tourism industry is also affected by the heavy traffic driving through town and if that meant going here instead envisions how it will be too much queues chooses to remove Sodertalje. It is incredibly worrying, she says.

Now, she says that the state must take greater responsibility.

– This vulnerability must be seen by the state for this is nothing we can plan ourselves . It must be the government’s responsibility to fund and administer the solutions required for the future, says Boel Godner (S).

A week ago drew Trafikverket handbrake for the repairs of Södertälje Bridge, after it was discovered that the repair work at a girder was very deficient. The responsible subcontractor were fired – and now, Trafikverket can not say when Sodertalje bridge will be repaired.

On Tuesday evening revealed SvD Business that the main contractor responsible for the repair of the bridge is owned 49.9 percent by a convicted felon with disqualification .